Dawn Dwyer

Dawn Dwyer was New Jersey's 1947 Miss America contestant and the wife of American businessman Seymour Levov.

Biography
Dawn Dwyer was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to a working-class Irish Catholic family; her father was a plumber. She went to high school in Newark, and, in 1947, she won "Miss New Jersey" and competed in the Miss America contestant. She went on to marry her high school sweetheart, the Jewish star athlete and US Marine Corps veteran Seymour Levov, and they lived in Old Rimrock, acquiring a large farm there. Their daughter, Merry Levov, would become a political terrorist during the 1960s, and Dawn had a nervous breakdown after her daughter disappeared. After treatment, she started an affair with a neighbor and told Seymour that their daughter had destroyed their previous life, failing to convince him to forget about Merry.